'Curb Your Enthusiasm' - 'The Bi-Sexual': Juicing the game

'Curb Your Enthusiasm' - 'The Bi-Sexual': Juicing the game

A quick review of last night's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" coming up just as soon as I secure the bags...

Because "Curb" is a show so defined by its structure, I sometimes find myself writing that an episode was very funny in spots but didn't work as a whole because the structure wasn't quite right. (Case in point: last week's Larry/Gervais obnoxious-off.) "The Bi-Sexual" was the opposite of that. Aside from weirdly ending with Larry being forced to have lunch with Duckstein rather than the scene before it, this was a very, very well-constructed episode. The competition with Rosie O'Donnell, the baseball metaphor laid on top of that, and then the ongoing argument with the Japanese restaurant manager(**) all came together beautifully in that moment on the steps of the Hall of Fame, where Larry was barred entry because he had cheated the game. Read More...